FARK.com: (7119560) You know that kooky, fringy, birther-curious Secretary of State from AZ that is trying to block Obama from the ballot? Yeah, he's one of Romney's campaign co-chairs

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		You know that kooky, fringy, birther-curious Secretary of State from AZ that is trying to block Obama from the ballot? Yeah, he's one of Romney's campaign co-chairs (talkingpointsmemo.com)		195
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SilentStrider		2012-05-22 08:29:40 AM

Shocked. Shocked I say.

xanadian		2012-05-22 08:32:27 AM

Well, surprise, surprise.

/[Arizona]

dogdaze		2012-05-22 08:35:51 AM

Is that a conflict of interest?

unlikely		2012-05-22 08:38:59 AM

dogdaze: Is that a conflict of interest?

You'd think.

Vodka Zombie		2012-05-22 08:41:42 AM

unlikely: dogdaze: Is that a conflict of interest?

You'd think.

No worries. These things are okay if you're a Republican.

Ed Finnerty		2012-05-22 08:50:12 AM

GOP: The only way they'll vote for us is we take away all other options.

Mr. Coffee Nerves		2012-05-22 08:53:28 AM

If this was happening in another country we'd be airdropping Jimmy Carter's peanut-fueled robot shock troops to monitor their elections and nodding smugly to ourselves about how we're just better.

GAT_00		2012-05-22 08:53:49 AM

Vodka Zombie: unlikely: dogdaze: Is that a conflict of interest?

You'd think.

No worries. These things are okay if you're a Republican.

Yeah you can guarantee Fox would scream for two days straight if Obama had, say, New York's SecState as a campaign staffer.

coeyagi		2012-05-22 08:55:14 AM

But he's gotten literally HUNDREDS of emails from his constituents, begging him not to put Farttimebongo on the ballot. Doesn't that trump everything?!>!111>!>?

coeyagi		2012-05-22 08:55:59 AM

Ed Finnerty: GOP: The only way they'll vote for us is we take away all other options.

Or Jesus. Definitely, Definitely Jesus.

Flappyhead		2012-05-22 08:56:36 AM

Can we get a temporary Arizona tag until this election is done?

Flappyhead		2012-05-22 08:58:33 AM

One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

talkingpointsmemo.com

jchic		2012-05-22 08:58:39 AM

Mr. Coffee Nerves: If this was happening in another country we'd be airdropping Jimmy Carter's peanut-fueled robot shock troops to monitor their elections and nodding smugly to ourselves about how we're just better.

Yea, I've had similar thoughts in the past few years. About the only thing we're better than everyone else at is thinking that we're better than everyone else no matter what the reality is.

/USA USA!!! woooooooooo!

Vacation Bible School		2012-05-22 08:59:20 AM

Obvious tag getting beaten in Chicago?

coeyagi		2012-05-22 08:59:48 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Calcium, 2+

Headso		2012-05-22 09:00:01 AM

Why isn't the lamestream msm liberal media reverse vampire conspiracy reporting on this?

MindStalker		2012-05-22 09:00:47 AM

GAT_00: Vodka Zombie: unlikely: dogdaze: Is that a conflict of interest?

You'd think.

No worries. These things are okay if you're a Republican.

Yeah you can guarantee Fox would scream for two days straight if Obama had, say, New York's SecState as a campaign staffer.

Not to mention if he was seriously threatening to take Romney off the ballot.

Deneb81		2012-05-22 09:00:56 AM

Flappyhead: Can we get a temporary Arizona tag until this election is done?

I think they've basically become Florida west. The place crazy old people go to crazy themselves out in their golden crazy years. It then seeps into the groundwater and infects everyone else. Or something.

Dictatorial_Flair		2012-05-22 09:01:02 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Are you positive you want such a thing?

JusticeandIndependence		2012-05-22 09:02:17 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

smug smug smug

/got nothing

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-05-22 09:05:54 AM

Ed Finnerty: GOP: The only way they'll vote for us is we take away all other options.

You know, I can totally see Arizona outlawing the Democratic Party entirely.

EyeballKid		2012-05-22 09:06:39 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

"And with a second term, there'd be no stopping him from sticking that thing in your wife, or your daughter!"

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-05-22 09:06:59 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Penis goes WHERE???

/you knew that was coming

Flappyhead		2012-05-22 09:07:27 AM

Dictatorial_Flair: Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Are you positive you want such a thing?

C'mon, just look at that bug-eyed expression. The possibilities are near limitless.

Sock Ruh Tease		2012-05-22 09:07:34 AM

This guy is trying to get his campaign's opponent off the ballot by holding two conflicting jobs. But don't worry citizen, the Republicans love democracy. Now pay your poll tax to the DMV and vote for the only candidate on the ballot, Mitt Romney.

GoodyearPimp		2012-05-22 09:08:18 AM

coeyagi: But he's gotten literally HUNDREDS of emails from his constituents, begging him not to put Farttimebongo on the ballot

That's how the law works, right? "Some guys emailed me" = destroying a few hundred years of precedent.

coeyagi		2012-05-22 09:08:23 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Log Cabin Republicans - You're not going to shiat (in an AMERICAN STANDARD toilet) right for a week.™

hubiestubert		2012-05-22 09:09:07 AM

You don't say?

macadamnut		2012-05-22 09:10:09 AM

But can he prove he's the Secretary of State?

Satanic_Hamster		2012-05-22 09:11:17 AM

Sock Ruh Tease: This guy is trying to get his campaign's opponent off the ballot by holding two conflicting jobs. But don't worry citizen, the Republicans love democracy. Now pay your poll tax to the DMV and vote for the only candidate on the ballot, Mitt Romney.

Holding two conflicting jobs? Explain or link please.

LordJiro		2012-05-22 09:11:27 AM

But some ACORN guys turned in registration forms for Mickey Mouse, so both sides are the same. Vote Republican.

coeyagi		2012-05-22 09:14:08 AM

James O'Keefe led a Seal Team 6 invasion on a small village in Kenya and beat the truth out of residents that Obama was in fact born in Kenya. But on a happy note, he left them all his pimp bling which they sold to tourists for a fraction of the cost.

quatchi		2012-05-22 09:14:42 AM

To be fair to Team Rah-Rah-Money getting Obama blocked from the ballot is the only way in hell that Mittens has a shot in hell of winning the election and even then it's not a dead cert.

blackminded		2012-05-22 09:16:39 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

OOGA BOOGA!

coeyagi		2012-05-22 09:17:21 AM

quatchi: To be fair to Team Rah-Rah-Money getting Obama blocked from the ballot is the only way in hell that Mittens has a shot in hell of winning the election and even then it's not a dead cert.

Um, but in Arizona... the state hasn't gone blue since 96. And history's greatest monster wouldn't have a shot if he was on the ballot, so this seems like a great way to a) subvert the law, b) subvert the will of some people and c) be a total dick.

Angry Buddha		2012-05-22 09:18:26 AM

Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Hydrogen!

Dr Dreidel		2012-05-22 09:19:54 AM

macadamnut: But can he prove he's the Secretary of State?

I loved that response from the Hawai'ian government. And Ken Bennet's, too: "I don't have time for these silly requests. I'm the SecState, dammit! NOTICE ME! BOW BEFORE MY WILL!"

// in honor of Hawai'i being awesome during the whole birther thing, I pledge to always put the apostrophe in the state name

Angry Buddha		2012-05-22 09:20:50 AM

coeyagi: Flappyhead: One more thing, impromptu cation contest.

[talkingpointsmemo.com image 640x353]

Calcium, 2+

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gingerjet		2012-05-22 09:20:51 AM

Sock Ruh Tease: This guy is trying to get his campaign's opponent off the ballot by holding two conflicting jobs. But don't worry citizen, the Republicans love democracy. Now pay your poll tax to the DMV and vote for the only candidate on the ballot, Mitt Romney.

Its common practice for elected officials to be chairs of some campaign and leader of the party. Its call politics. Look it up.

/and if the guy won't do the job - there is always the courts

Lost Thought 00		2012-05-22 09:21:30 AM

/troll on

He, it's the same tactic Obama used to win his Senate seat. Turnabout is fair play

/troll off

MindStalker		2012-05-22 09:24:56 AM

coeyagi: quatchi: To be fair to Team Rah-Rah-Money getting Obama blocked from the ballot is the only way in hell that Mittens has a shot in hell of winning the election and even then it's not a dead cert.

Um, but in Arizona... the state hasn't gone blue since 96. And history's greatest monster wouldn't have a shot if he was on the ballot, so this seems like a great way to a) subvert the law, b) subvert the will of some people and c) be a total dick.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/az/arizona_rom n ey_vs_obama-1757.html

Romney's only got about a 5 point lead, for comparison McCain beat Obama by 9 points. Its not in the bag yet.

HotWingConspiracy		2012-05-22 09:25:00 AM

Lost Thought 00: /troll on

He, it's the same tactic Obama used to win his Senate seat. Turnabout is fair play

/troll off

He demanded a birth certificate he already had a copy of?

Andrew Wiggin		2012-05-22 09:25:58 AM

i thought he was awesome in ghostbusters and die hard.

Aarontology		2012-05-22 09:27:06 AM

Sock Ruh Tease		2012-05-22 09:27:46 AM

gingerjet: Sock Ruh Tease: This guy is trying to get his campaign's opponent off the ballot by holding two conflicting jobs. But don't worry citizen, the Republicans love democracy. Now pay your poll tax to the DMV and vote for the only candidate on the ballot, Mitt Romney.

Its common practice for elected officials to be chairs of some campaign and leader of the party. Its call politics. Look it up.

/and if the guy won't do the job - there is always the courts

Yeah, but one of the specific jobs of the Sec. of State is to decide who is on the ballot (and other ballot related things, like phrasing ballot questions).

The Secretary of State decides who is on the ballot.
A Romney campaign co-chair helps lead the Romney campaign.

It sure would be easy for the Romney campaign to win electoral votes in AZ if the other major candidate was off the ballot (as unlikely it is that it will swing blue in the general even with Obama on the ballot... and even more unlikely that it is that this guy will get away with keeping him off of it).

And yeah, it's been done in the past (Ohio/Bush comes to mind), but it shouldn't matter. It seems pretty unethical for the guy writing the ballots to be working for your campaign. Doesn't matter what side you're stumping for. There are plenty of qualified people to work your campaign who aren't writing ballots.

I try not to attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, but even beyond a cursory glance this seems pretty malicious.

Citrate1007		2012-05-22 09:29:04 AM

Republicans used to be the intellectual party......goddamnitsomuch farking Tea Baggers

Satanic_Hamster		2012-05-22 09:30:54 AM

gingerjet: Its common practice for elected officials to be chairs of some campaign and leader of the party. Its call politics. Look it up.

Which is true; however, the secretary of state is in charge of running and certifying elections. And in this case has been making threats to keep his party's opponent off the ballot.

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-05-22 09:31:57 AM

Citrate1007: Republicans used to be the intellectual party......goddamnitsomuch farking ~~Tea Baggers~~ Christian Coalition

/don't know where the hell you were....

Kome		2012-05-22 09:32:18 AM

Sock Ruh Tease: I try not to attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, but even beyond a cursory glance this seems pretty malicious.

Don't be too hasty. It could be both stupid and malicious.